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Encounters with Euclid : how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world /
"Euclid’s Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainheads of mathematics—and of culture. Written around 300 BCE, it has traveled widely across the centuries, generating countless new ideas and inspiring such figures as Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein. Encou...
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2021.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Wardhaugh, Benjamin, |d 1979- |e author. | |
| 240 | 1 | 0 | |a Book of wonders |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Encounters with Euclid : |b how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world / |c Benjamin Wardhaugh. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a How an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world |
| 264 | 1 | |a Princeton : |b Princeton University Press, |c 2021. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2021 | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 500 | |a "Originally published in the English language in 2020 by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. under the title The Book of Wonders: The Many Lives of Euclid's Elements"--Title page verso. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part one. Author. Alexandria: the geometer and the king -- Elephantine: pot shards -- Hypsicles: the fourteenth book -- Theon of Alexandria: editing the Elements -- Stephanos the scribe: Euclid in Byzantium -- Al-Hajjaj: Euclid in Baghdad -- Adelard: the Latin Euclid -- Erhard Ratdolt: printing the Elements -- Marget Seymer her hand: owning the Elements -- Edward Bernard: Minerva in Oxford -- Part two. Sage. Plato: the philosopher and the slave -- Proclus Diadochus: Minerva in Athens -- Hroswitha of Gandersheim: Wisdom and her daughters -- Rabbi Levi ben Gershom: Euclid in Hebrew -- Christoph Clavius: the Jesuit Elements -- Xu Guangqi: Euclid in China -- Blame not our author: geometry on stage -- Baruch Spinoza: the geometrical manner -- Anne Lister: improving the mind -- Part three. Hero. Petechonsis: taxing and overtaxing -- Dividing the monochord -- Hyginus: surveying the land -- Muhammad Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani: dividing the square -- Lady Geometria: depicting the liberal arts -- Piero della Francesca: seeing in perspective -- Euclid Speidell: teaching and learning -- Isaac Newton: mathematical principles -- Part four. Shadow and mask. Mary Fairfax: Euclid and the straitjacket -- François Peyrard: Manuscript 190 -- Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii: parallels -- Maggie and Tom: the torture of the mind -- Simson in Urdu: the Euclidean empire -- His modern rivals -- Thomas Little Heath: the true con amore spirit -- Max Ernst: Euclid's mask -- Euclidean designs -- Lambda: curved space, dark energy. | |
| 588 | 0 | |a Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 09, 2021). | |
| 520 | |a "Euclid’s Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainheads of mathematics—and of culture. Written around 300 BCE, it has traveled widely across the centuries, generating countless new ideas and inspiring such figures as Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein. Encounters with Euclid tells the story of this incomparable mathematical masterpiece, taking readers from its origins in the ancient world to its continuing influence today. In this lively and informative book, Benjamin Wardhaugh explains how Euclid’s text journeyed from antiquity to the Renaissance, introducing some of the many readers, copyists, and editors who left their mark on the Elements before handing it on. He shows how some read the book as a work of philosophy, while others viewed it as a practical guide to life. He examines the many different contexts in which Euclid’s book and his geometry were put to use, from the Neoplatonic school at Athens and the artisans’ studios of medieval Baghdad to the Jesuit mission in China and the workshops of Restoration London. Wardhaugh shows how the Elements inspired ideas in theology, art, and music, and how the book has acquired new relevance to the strange geometries of dark matter and curved space. Encounters with Euclid traces the life and afterlives of one of the most remarkable works of mathematics ever written, revealing its lasting role in the timeless search for order and reason in an unruly world."-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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